XPeng’s stronger deliveries and Physical AI roadmap place focus on smart EV growth, robotics, automation, and profitability challenges.

Tesla’s Optimus is the better-known name, touted by Elon Musk as a full-stack humanoid built to tackle “mundane, repetitive, or dangerous tasks.” It stands at 5'8", powered by Tesla's Full ...

Xpeng Motors, widely recognized for its electric vehicles, has introduced Ion, a humanoid robot developed over five years, showcasing advanced robotics technology. This move reflects Xpeng’s ambition ...

Companies building humanoid robots are all the rage these days. Elon Musk is promising to sell enough motion-capture-trained Optimus bots to make up the vast majority of Tesla's value, while a company ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

Chinese EV maker XPeng has unveiled its next-generation IRON humanoid robot at the 2025 XPeng Tech Day, calling it “the most human-like humanoid robot.” The IRON robot features a bionic ...

Every Wednesday and Friday, TechNode’s Briefing newsletter delivers a roundup of the most important news in China tech, straight to your inbox. Sign up On Wednesday in Guangzhou, China, Xpeng unveiled ...

Xpeng founder He Xiaopeng introduces Iron, a new humanoid robot. Credit: Jade Gao / AFP via Getty Images Xpeng, a Chinese electric vehicle company, stunned social media with the introduction of its ...

You might assume that Tesla has the humanoid robot stage to itself, but several Chinese automakers are also sprinting toward the same goal. Among them, EV startup Xpeng is taking the lead, planning to ...

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The logic is simple: humanoids will need endless real-world training, and XPeng wants partners to accelerate that process. As He explained, the company intends to allow developers to "buy our robots ...

Chinese EV company XPENG unveiled its next-gen humanoid robot IRON during its AI Day event in Guangzhou, having it walk onto the stage in a stilted yet strangely lifelike saunter. The reveal swiftly ...